JamesG
07-22-2014, 04:32 PM
Octavia Spencer on Scrapped "Murder, She Wrote" Reboot: "Everything Happens for a Reason"
by Chris Harnick
7/22/14
"Everything happens for a reason." Octavia Spencer told E! News she's a firm believer in that thinking.
The Oscar winner was curled up on a couch at the Beverly Hilton next to her "Red Band Society" co-star Dave Annable on Sunday, July 20, to promote their new Fox series, but this scenario was very close to not happening.
Spencer was attached to star in the headline-grabbing NBC reboot of "Murder, She Wrote" as a hospital administrator and mystery writer. The project got a lot of attention, especially after original series star Angela Lansbury spoke out about the reboot and its eventual combustion.
Spencer said she's "glad" things worked out the way they did.
"You know, that would not have been the right fit for me. Although I love Bob and everybody over at NBC, I think things happen as they're supposed to. I am a detective and curious person by nature, that's who I am and I always thought that's who I wanted to play.
But when you're on a television show, it's a marriage and when you take that vow to be on a series for seven years, it should be something that you want to see and a character you want to learn about, and with a group of people that you want to see for the next seven years."
http://www.eonline.com/news/561875/octavia-spencer-on-scrapped-murder-she-wrote-reboot-everything-happens-for-a-reason
by Chris Harnick
7/22/14
"Everything happens for a reason." Octavia Spencer told E! News she's a firm believer in that thinking.
The Oscar winner was curled up on a couch at the Beverly Hilton next to her "Red Band Society" co-star Dave Annable on Sunday, July 20, to promote their new Fox series, but this scenario was very close to not happening.
Spencer was attached to star in the headline-grabbing NBC reboot of "Murder, She Wrote" as a hospital administrator and mystery writer. The project got a lot of attention, especially after original series star Angela Lansbury spoke out about the reboot and its eventual combustion.
Spencer said she's "glad" things worked out the way they did.
"You know, that would not have been the right fit for me. Although I love Bob and everybody over at NBC, I think things happen as they're supposed to. I am a detective and curious person by nature, that's who I am and I always thought that's who I wanted to play.
But when you're on a television show, it's a marriage and when you take that vow to be on a series for seven years, it should be something that you want to see and a character you want to learn about, and with a group of people that you want to see for the next seven years."
http://www.eonline.com/news/561875/octavia-spencer-on-scrapped-murder-she-wrote-reboot-everything-happens-for-a-reason